Improvement in plows



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`I-IIRAM C-ULVER,v OF DANSVILLEQNEW YORK.

Letters .Patent No. 87,641,7dated 9, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT INJgLows.

The B'ehedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the lame.

To all whom it ma/y concern: V

Beit knownthat I, HIRAM GULVER, ot Dansville, in the county of Livingston, and State of New York, have invented a new and valuable Improvement `in Plows; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation pf thev same, reference being had to the annexed drawllugs, making a part of this specification, and to the letthe operator can ad) ust either a single or gang-plow to the beam, at will, and thereby adapt the machine to the requirements of the soil upon which he is engaged.

' It alsol consists in providing eci'ent and novel means 4 for raising or lowering the plows,.fo1' transportation ,or

otherwise. y

Fig. l ofthe drawings represents my plow-carriage. Itis in the usual form, with two wheels, and has a drivers seat adjusted upon the carriage-axle, 011 one side of the tongue, as therein shown.

A frame, A, lextends rearward from the axle, which serves not only as a support for the rearend ofthe carnage-seat, but also as a rest for the diagonal bar-c, here- -inafter mentioned. Y

lhe letter c is a slotted bar, adj usted tothe rear bar l ofthe frame A, in the manner shown on fig. 2, the oee' of which is to hold and aid inthe operation of the plowhandle, as hereinafter described.

The letter B is a chain, attached, .by its front end, to a staple in the lower side of the carriage-tongue, and at its rear end to a clevis connected by a pin with the pendant s. This pendant is adjusted in a mortise cut in` the side of the wagon-tongue, or one of its hounds, in the mani` ner shown, namely, by holes and pin, to the end that it may be raised or lowered at will.

The letter E represents the handle of my plow, hinged to the rear end of the landside thereof', and provided with pin-holes, (one or more,) adapted to the pin that passes through the slotted bar o, above mentioned. When a gang-plow is used, the handle E is hinged to the middle bar thereof, as shown on lig. 4 o f the drawings.

To operate my device,the driver s its in his seat and manages the plow by means of the handle E resting in `the slot of bar c, under the pin therein adjusted. To transport the plow, the operator raises said handle, and secures the same in said slot, by passing the pin through said handle, at such a point as will keep the plow from the ground. A

The gang-plow is substituted for the single plow by placing its beam in the slot of pendant s, from which the beam of the single plow has been removed, and attaching the handle E tn its middle beam, as represented on iig. 4. v

Ihese -devices enable the operator to change or substitute a gang-plowvtbr a single one, with great ease and rapidity, and thereby adapt his' plowing to either a light or heavy soil. y

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is v The combination and arrangement of the bar c, pendant s, chain B, and handle E, with a single or gangplow, as herein described, for the uses andgpurposes speciiied. l

'In testimony that I claim the above, I have hereunto subscribed my name, in the presence-of two witnesses.

, H-IRAM ,OULVER Witnesses:

SETE N. Hnnens, D. W. Norris. 

